No. They can publish as many bad articles as they want, & I lose reputation each time I try to review them. Effective Gish Gallop strategyhttps://twitter.com/Mjreard/status/865226628527468544 …
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DeBoer is on your side in that one!
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He writes "I think the piece undersells the influence of genes on IQ based on extant evidence - not in numbers but general tone ...
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...but that’s probably necessary for getting these ideas circulating in progressive spheres."
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He writes that Vox's audience "certainly do need to hear that the overwhelming evidence is...all human outcomes are significantly heritable"
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How is that bad and digging a deeper hole?!
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If everyone in the world believed what Freddie believes, we'd have utopia in like ten minutes.
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From my point of view, 90% of the reason the race stuff is important is because otherwise people will use it as a disproof that genes matter
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"Oh, you say genes determine outcomes, but with these extra assumptions that's racist, therefore forget genes".
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I doubt that this kind of thing can be routed around, but it *could* work, and I'm happy that people are trying.
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Main reason I care about genetics is to get good genetic engineering in future.
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The race stuff *helps* - if we can point to the B/W gap and say "Look, this is the sort of thing we could solve w/ gene engineering" [cont]
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...it would be impossible and obviously horrific to refuse to do so.
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